an amazing song that's sorta buried in the middle of tupelo honey is "you're my woman"
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 27 July 2017 12:07 (six years ago) link
and hard nose the highway gets a bad rep bc of it's really aimless second side but "snow in san anselmo" "warm love" and the title track is the strongest opening of... any van record, i think (moondance and veedon fleece prob rival it)
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 27 July 2017 12:10 (six years ago) link
"Warm Love" is on the comp, no?
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 July 2017 12:16 (six years ago) link
It's ever-present everywhere.
― okapi paste (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 27 July 2017 12:17 (six years ago) link
Duh.
― okapi paste (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 27 July 2017 12:18 (six years ago) link
lol
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 27 July 2017 13:30 (six years ago) link
my brother and i were cracking up over Van's passionate delivery of "WHO'S YOUR SPONSOR!!??" on "I Paid The Price" recently
― tylerw, Thursday, 27 July 2017 14:21 (six years ago) link
I think I'm just going to send a top 5 covers list along with my ballot. He recorded too much good stuff to cram into a top 30. I mean he even did an awesome cover of Bein' Green.
― that's not my post, Thursday, 27 July 2017 15:26 (six years ago) link
^live version that is.
― that's not my post, Thursday, 27 July 2017 15:31 (six years ago) link
falling in love with all these albums all over again.
the way that young lovers do >>>
― Many men scream death (voodoo chili), Thursday, 27 July 2017 20:08 (six years ago) link
Reminder to vote. We're on a record pace with ballots but we need to keep the momentum going.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 27 July 2017 20:19 (six years ago) link
a period of transition is still....not great. wavelength always surprises me at first though bc i loooooooove "kingdom hall"
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 28 July 2017 03:27 (six years ago) link
the intrusions of non-van production and instrumentation are v refreshing. feels like there are way too many guitars on "kingdom hall" in a good way
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 28 July 2017 03:28 (six years ago) link
it is maybe van's tackiest album tho
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 28 July 2017 03:41 (six years ago) link
Listen at 54:20 or so. There's a bunch of ad lib and some numbers and I... still don't get it. Surely this is A Thing.― leave your emu at the door (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, July 20, 2017 2:06 PM (one week ago)
― leave your emu at the door (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, July 20, 2017 2:06 PM (one week ago)
Dialling codes - he's caught between 212 and 415 and 011 44 1 - New York, San Francisco, and London (dialling from America, back when the UK code for London was 01 not 020).
― woof, Friday, 28 July 2017 10:04 (six years ago) link
Ah! Okay so totally different from the numbers in the outro of "Cleaning Windows." "Number a hundred and thirty six!"
― okapi paste (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 28 July 2017 10:36 (six years ago) link
van is from the lodge
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 28 July 2017 12:29 (six years ago) link
michael b is right upthread that "heavy connection" is a good song on period of transition but the other songs really don't pull their weight. i love the production though and i wonder what a more inspired van would've done on a bill withers-sounding record
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 28 July 2017 12:38 (six years ago) link
i will find it v difficult to not vote for every track on common one
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 28 July 2017 12:54 (six years ago) link
wavelength is a great record, i'm calling it. "kingdom hall," the title track, and "take it where you find it" alone
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 28 July 2017 13:20 (six years ago) link
def putting this at an unreasonably high position in my ballot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhHfcrOwBas
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 28 July 2017 13:22 (six years ago) link
Even though this album was singled out in the Kelefa Sanneh rockism article, this song is still worth your time and a spot on your ballot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u92E-e0t5HY
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 28 July 2017 13:31 (six years ago) link
into the music is a masterpiece really
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 28 July 2017 13:36 (six years ago) link
The "TB Sheets" album has been a real revelation for me. I've always loved the title track (heard it on the radio years ago) but I probably prefer the version of "Madame George" on it to the "Astral Weeks" one.
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Friday, 28 July 2017 14:45 (six years ago) link
is that one of those rearranged bang records comps of which there were once 100000 on itunes
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 28 July 2017 14:47 (six years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.B._Sheets_(album)
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Friday, 28 July 2017 14:48 (six years ago) link
ah the answer is yes
the halcyon days when the only van morrison records available digitally were a greatest hits comp and 1000000 variations of the bang records recordings and the funny piss-takes he did to get out of his bang contract
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 28 July 2017 14:51 (six years ago) link
too unfamiliar with this discography to put together a real 30-track ballot but I'm gonna vote anyway
― sleeve, Friday, 28 July 2017 15:12 (six years ago) link
I like Astral Weeks, Common One, and Veedon Fleece
please gimme some album/track recommendations, the longer and spacier the better
― sleeve, Friday, 28 July 2017 15:13 (six years ago) link
doesn't get much longer/spacier than this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz7fWE47N8Y
― tylerw, Friday, 28 July 2017 15:14 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2JZ6BiAGj8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jGAvi2p1KE
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 28 July 2017 15:15 (six years ago) link
^^ i highly recommend that whole album but that's where it gets real drifty
Listened to common one for the first time today. Really lovely.
― wtev, Friday, 28 July 2017 15:26 (six years ago) link
Almost Independence Day is a masterpiece and will be way up high on my ballot. Apparently it was inspired by a phone call he got from a bandmate in Them, calling from Oregon in early July. Hence the lyric.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 28 July 2017 15:31 (six years ago) link
i think st. dominic's preview might be my most-listened to Van album
― tylerw, Friday, 28 July 2017 15:32 (six years ago) link
Any thoughts on what might win? Is Madam George the obvious choice? St Dominic's title track? Redwood Tree? Common One? Christ, this is hard.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Friday, 28 July 2017 20:01 (six years ago) link
i'd say cyprus avenue, or caravan, or into the mystic, or
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 28 July 2017 20:07 (six years ago) link
I would love for Into the Mystic to Win but knowing you doodz it'll prolly be Caravan or Wonderful Remark
― okapi paste (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 28 July 2017 20:12 (six years ago) link
Or Jackie Wilson Said
lol I checked out Caravan and was like "oh no, not this one"
hippie overexposure to Moondance runs deep
― sleeve, Friday, 28 July 2017 20:29 (six years ago) link
The "TB Sheets" album has been a real revelation for me.
http://images.45worlds.com/f/ab/van-morrison-tb-sheets-ab.jpg
This edition of TB Sheets means a lot to me for sentimental reasons - and as a concise boil down of the Bang era stuff it really works. But it does miss off one of my faves from this period, available on other unlegit comps:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u-CDd2CQEg
― Bernie Lugg (Ward Fowler), Friday, 28 July 2017 20:36 (six years ago) link
Sorry for huge!
― Bernie Lugg (Ward Fowler), Friday, 28 July 2017 20:37 (six years ago) link
xxp yeah that's the one I am familiar with, I had no idea there was a bunch of contract breaking weirdness
― sleeve, Friday, 28 July 2017 20:38 (six years ago) link
The contract breaking weirdness aka 'Garbage Van'
― Bernie Lugg (Ward Fowler), Friday, 28 July 2017 20:41 (six years ago) link
His Band and the Street Choir is way better than I remembered.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 28 July 2017 20:51 (six years ago) link
The version of Into the Mystic on vol.3 of Too Late to Stop Now damn near makes me levitate.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Friday, 28 July 2017 20:57 (six years ago) link
Hoping voters remember just how exquisite Linden Arden is ... the interplay between Van's singing and the piano is magic.
― that's not my post, Friday, 28 July 2017 23:10 (six years ago) link
man yall I really didn't know there were other van fans around here and generally hold my tongue
I will rep for a fair bit of 90s van. honestly I will say he's still got it. pay the devil was fuckin good. common one knocked me over when i first found it but that was back when just knowing it existed made you a head. wanna say good words here for queen of the slipstream & raglan road. those are giant numbers. along w/be thou my vision from hymns to the silence. fuck yes van morrison.
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 29 July 2017 00:28 (six years ago) link
man I never but never do these poll submission threads but you can expect an email from me in about five minutes here.
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 29 July 2017 00:29 (six years ago) link
OH MY HIGH IN THE ART OF SUFFERING ONE, TAKE A WALK WITH ME
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 29 July 2017 00:46 (six years ago) link